Shift for Wellness: Recent Episodes
Jennifer Behre Caputo
You deserve to be well! This space has been created just for you as it promotes and teaches how to live with ease while facing challenges and trauma with courage and resilience. It’s not about being perfect; it’s about being easy with the practice. -Jennifer xo
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Food fuels the body, it comforts the soul, it triggers emotions. Food is woven into the fabric of our ancestry, and has very deep roots into who we are and how we live our lives. Food is the center of our celebrations and our comfort in times of grief. Food can cause allergies, brain fog, digestion issues, inflammation, sluggishness, and it is also the greatest...
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Let me begin by telling you that the inspiration for this post began with a request from my friend, Mike Kuczala. In short, Mike is a bestselling author, acclaimed keynote speaker and innovative professional developer in both educational and corporate settings. He’s currently wrapping up the publication of another book titled: The Peak Performing Teacher: 5 Habits of Success, which will be out in February....
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Wow!! I am SUPER excited to be back in this space with you all on this platform that I missed tremendously!! Wow, where have we been?! Talk about an opportunity to use our tools! And hopefully you had the chance to listen, way back in July of 2020 when I produced that last, episode 48: “Healing Strategies to Help during Troubling Times”. I taught two...
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Today, I’m going to be sharing with you two efficient healing strategies to help you manage where you are right now during these troubling times and how you can move forward in a positive direction contributing wellness, understanding, and respect to these issues and to any other issues you need to gain control over. As we continue to experience COVID-19 and racial injustice in...
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I feel that it’s really important for educators to focus on the whole child, not just the academic piece because children today are dealing with so many emotions. – Barbara McIntyre One of the one things I’ve come to know about facing challenges and tragedies is that kids of all ages sitting in classrooms all throughout Sussex County and the state of New Jersey suffer greatly...
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The Nutrition Committee evolved into an overall Wellness Committee. From nutrition, we’d have a Family Activity Night. We emphasized the need to be active as a family. We also started…Screen Free Time. With a grant we recevied equipment for videos, mats, etc. so the staff could exercise and do yoga after school. – Pat Faris One of the one things I’ve come to know about...
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Social and emotional learning is so easy to implement in your everyday teaching. – Maggie Reilly One of the one things I’ve come to know about facing challenges and tragedies is that kids of all ages sitting in classrooms all throughout Sussex County and the state of New Jersey suffer greatly from them. Year after year I witness these levels in children increasing. Students trust themselves...
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A lot of kids have this mindset where feeling happy is a good thing, feeling sad is bad, feeling angry is bad, and feeling exciting is good…I want them to start being aware that actually all feelings are good! – Stephanie DiIonno, 3rd-grade teacher One of the one things I’ve come to know about facing challenges and tragedies is that kids of all ages sitting in...
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In Part III of the Mindful Human series, we practiced getting in touch with sound as we played around with Mindful Listening. If you didn’t get the chance to practice or listen to part three, you can check out episode #40 “Part III Mindful Human Series: Your Brain and Mindfulness”. You’ll want to go to shiftforwellness.com/40. If you’d like to listen to the series in...
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“To be able to offer therapy, counseling, and wellness activites to our students and staff members has been just a dream come true.” School Psychologist and Coordinator for the Align Wellness Center, Dr. Jane Esposito from Sparta High School in Sparta, New Jersey, tells us all about the creation of The Align Wellness Center at the high school. The center is committed to providing students...
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Students were disregulated and in need of coping strategies and I think a lot of times we’re so focused on the academics and the rote instruction…we really don’t have the same framework for social emotional learning. – Dr. Melissa VanBlarcom, School Psychologist School Psychologist, Dr. Melissa VanBlarcom from Long Pond School in Andover, New Jersey shares her story about how she works with the school...
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In Part II of the Mindful Human series we practiced getting in touch with our Anchor Breath. If you didn’t get the chance to practice or listen to part two, you can check out episode #38 “Part II Mindful Human series: Why Practicing Mindfulness is Necessary”. Visit shiftforwellness.com/#38. There you can read the blog post or listen to the podcast and you can also download...
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Mindfulness and social emotional learning to me are not necesarily a program, but it’s more of just a practice, and we embed it as much as we can into every day activities and routines…” – Jess Garris, 5th & 6th Grade Language Arts/Social Studies Special Education Teacher Listen in as two teachers, Jess Garris and Courtney Savino, from Franklin Elementary School in Franklin,...
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In Part 1 of the Mindful Human series, we imagined what the world would be like if it were filled with people who were mindful. People who paused and responded rather than reacted. People who looked up with a kind smile for you. People who paused to understand rather than made assumptions or judged? I challenged you to decide whether to choose to be a...
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Imagine moving through your day free from worry, being nonjudgmental, and with a kindness in your heart for yourself and others. People that pay attention and are aware of the world around them and the space they occupy is what our world needs now more than ever. This is the practice of Mindfulness. The practice of mindfulness is about the sensory experience. It’s an awareness...
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I’m often asked by friends and family where I teach yoga and when I tell them I don’t work in a studio, I choose to simply teach the faculty and staff I work with after school once a week. I also remind them I teach the kids in class as well, and it’s then that they ask me if I would teach them private yoga...
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Isn’t it funny where life takes us? If you’re like me, every day you create an agenda, a “to do” list, for what you’d like to accomplish. Some days you actually make it through that list and other days you wonder why am I even bothering to make one. I set a goal for myself back in the fall 2017 which was to have all...
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I bought this lovely book a few years ago when I began teaching fifth grade. It was my intention to kick the year off with it, but it never happened. Being new to the elementary school environment, I was barely able to keep my head above water. As a matter of fact, my head was never above water. My lips were really, really close to...
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